Detective work on dupes

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Dec 14 03:45:35 UTC 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 18:35:40 -0800,
  Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.

package-cleanup --cleandupes will normally work pretty well. There can be
some problems if there were packages not updated as part of a broken
transaction. You want to keep track of what was removed so you can put stuff
back if need be.

If you notice right away when a transaction goes bad, you want to run
yum-complete-transaction, as that will finish adding packages for the
transaction before it starts removing stuff. If too much stuff has
changed before you try this you may not be able to just finish the
transaction.


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